When I was a child, I always wanted to be funny and to please people in my family. As you grow up that instinct becomes more refined, but it’s still there. – Romola Garai
If I’m in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to. – Ron Livingston
James Caan told me at the end of filming ‘Elf’ that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny – and I never was. – Will Ferrell
Adventure games are all about details – if you happen to take this one object and use it with this other object, in a really weird place, at a weird time. If you happen to write a really funny dialogue line for that, even if it didn’t solve the puzzle, people will appreciate that. – Tim Schafer
I’ve been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-white film called ‘How to Dance Properly,’ a short video of me dancing to a Madonna song. I sent it to 17 of my friends on a Thursday, and by Monday, one million people a day were logging on to view it. – Ze Frank
When I’m on stage, it’s really intense. My mind is going a million miles an hour, trying to remember my act, trying to say it all the right way. It’s funny how different it looks and how it’s happening. There are three Fellini circuses in my head, and outwardly it looks like I’m going to get a bagel. – Steven Wright
There is nothing in the world that I loathe more than group activity, that communal bath where the hairy and slippery mix in a multiplication of mediocrity. – Vladimir Nabokov
I think people like comedies and I think concept driven comedies seem to be working when it’s a clear concept and you deliver funny stuff. – Todd Phillips
There are movies that I love tonally, that I would love to emulate. Anything from Wes Anderson or the Coen brothers is right in my wheelhouse, as something that I would aspire to. I love that kind of indie, fun, colorful, funny, sweet, heartfelt but dark film. – Sam Huntington
Comedy was something I picked up trying to perfect my art through spoken word. I got on YouTube just to show off my poetry, and then people thought I was funny, so I ran with it. – Spoken Reasons
I think that it’s hard for vain people to be funny. I think you can look any way you want as long as you have a good sense of humor about yourself. People who are concerned with their looks and what they’re wearing and how they present themselves tend to have less of a sense of humor about themselves. – Taran Killam
What is important to me as an actor is that, even if I have to spread my arms, take my shirt off on a mountain top with my heroine in a chiffon sari, it still has to be me and my twist or my funny take on it. – Vir Das
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. – Terry Pratchett
My take on ‘Lucifer’ was pretty much laid down by Tom Kapinos when he wrote the original pilot script for it. I remember reading it for the first time, and I was about four or five pages in, thinking this is so funny, and I know how I would want to do this if I was going to do it. – Tom Ellis
I think all good drama is funny. All the best drama is ultimately very funny. Life is funny. You can’t have any honest treatise on life without bumping into some humor. – Thomas Jane
My eyes are different sizes, my nose is too broad at the bridge and squishes up when I laugh, and my lips are sorta funny when I smile. – Terry Farrell
Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. – Tobias Wolff
Sometimes you don’t want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world. – Tina Weymouth
Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don’t have a sense of humor it just isn’t funny anymore. – Wavy Gravy
I’ve always enjoyed watching characters that aren’t aware that they’re doing anything funny. And I think that inherently makes them funnier. – Steve Carell
My voice is distinctive: there’s a rhythm to it, and also, it’s funny. I was just blessed with a funny-sounding voice. – Wanda Sykes
What’s David’s role? David looks good, that’s what David does. David looks good, and I’m the funny one, that’s what I hear constantly. But I keep telling him that looks fade. – Victoria Beckham